# Animal charities mark Remember A Charity Week

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/09/15/animal-charities-mark-remember-charity-week/
- Published: 2010-09-15T20:56:51+01:00
- Author: Rob Cope

**Remember A Charity’s greatest strength is its 140 members. But its coalition of
members is also its biggest challenge. How do you tell the story of so many charities
during one week?**

For the remainder of Remember A Charity Week, we’ll be profiling charities from 
key causes. Today is the turn of our animal charities…

Sam, press officer at Abbeyfield, did a great job gathering local Hertfordshire &
Middlesex charities together for a media photocall, generating some great legacy
publicity. I love the photo above. Where else would you get Saracens rugby player
Ethienne Reynecke, Quiksilver the alpaca, and the Animal Care Trust’s Claire Whitehead?

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Charlotte Peters from the Dogs Trust, also arrived with ten-year-old rescue dog,
Nigel, delivered a timely reminder that a third of the charity’s income is through
legacy donations.

Guide Dogs have also been busy doing their bit for the week. Not only will they 
team up with Arthiritis Research UK on a stall at the Medeival Market in Chester
on Friday, they’ve also been branding their buildings whilst using tea as a starting
point for legacy conversations. As well as all this, Guide Dogs are the only charity
taking part in the Free Wills campaign across September and will use this to publicise
the campaign.

Guide Dogs and Raystede Animal Welfare Centre were also part of a photo call in 
Brighton last week. Ten charities from the Hampshire & Sussex region got tied up
in barrier tape outside St. Peter’s church, as provided by the Diocese of Chichester.
Even the vicar got involved by giving up his time to help spread the legacy message
as widely as possible!

And lastly, Wood Green Animal Shelters are using the week to thank their supporters.
Without gifts in wills, the charity would be without the Phyllis Pratt Cattery, 
funded by a legacy from its namesake. To show their gratitude, staff from the Godmanchester
shelter staged their own photograph complete with cats, dogs, rabbits, horses and
even goats!

Many of our animal charities including Born Free, The Orangutan Appeal and The Wildlife
Trust are featured in the Legacies Through a Lens exhibition. Today marked the opening
of the exhibition to the public at the OXO Gallery in London which will run for 
the rest of the week from 11am till 6pm. But for those of you who can’t make it,
take a look at our [virtual gallery](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rememberacharity/sets/72157624948648466).

Our animal charities have set an example for the remainder of the week in our challenge
to make legacy giving a social norm. 

 * **[Giraffe’s falafel burgers raise £46,929 for ZSL London Zoo](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/08/30/giraffe039s-falafel-burgers-raise-46929-zsl-london-zoo/)**(
   30 August 2011)
 * **[Donor recognition pays](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/20/donor-recognition-pays/)**(
   20 April 2012)
 * **[Company Shop rear cows on food waste to feed charitable projects](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/28/company-shop-rear-cows-food-waste-feed-charitable-projects/)**(
   28 May 2012)